“Prophet of Katrina” stays put

Times-Picayune’s ace environment reporter sticks with Nola Media Group

By Curtis Brainard   Jun 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The man The New York Times called “a prophet of Katrina’s wrath” for his prescient coverage of New Orleans’ vulnerability... More

The Advocate raids the Picayune

Major defections from the New Orleans paper intensify a newspaper war

By Ryan Chittum   May 8, 2013 at 04:36 PM

I wrote this last week about the South Louisiana newspaper war: "It will also not have a hard time poaching... More

The Advocate vs. the Times-Picayune

A New Orleans businessman fires up the newspaper war with the Newhouses

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 30, 2013 at 11:59 PM

The Louisiana newspaper war just got a lot more interesting. It's been a poorly kept secret in New Orleans media... More

Advance to nowhere

Newhouse-owned chain slogs forward with discredited free-news model, now in Cleveland

By Dean Starkman   Apr 4, 2013 at 05:00 PM

Advance Publications's announcement today on the future of the Cleveland Plain Dealer was less dramatic than the one a year... More

An eye on the Times-Picayune’s numbers

Some questions about what executives say are positive circulation trends

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 22, 2013 at 03:00 PM

We'll have a long story on the Times-Picayune next week, but Publisher Ricky Mathews and Editor Jim Amoss released some... More

Another A1 Times-Picayune press release

This time the publisher takes to the front page, eliding the gutting of his newsroom

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 20, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Not content with dominating the Times-Picayune's front page on Thursday with a press release from its editor, the paper ran... More

Audit Notes: Smart Money, NYT CEO, sushi chefs and nola.com

Dow Jones lays off staff and goes all-digital with its personal-finance magazine

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 21, 2012 at 09:22 PM

Dow Jones is shutting down Smart Money magazine, laying off most of the staff and going to a digital-only format... More

Audit Notes: Bagged Men, whistleblowers, Times-Picayune

Rupert Murdoch, prepare your checkbook

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 25, 2013 at 06:50 AM

The Washington Post's Erik Wemple asks the New York Post's "Bag Men" to sue the paper for libel: So journalists... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg apologizes, Snow Fall re-imagined, Carr on Advance

Winkler admits reporters should never have had access to customer data

By Ryan Chittum   May 13, 2013 at 06:50 AM

Bloomberg News has gotten a big black eye for snooping on its customers, and Editor-In-Chief Matt Winkler apologizes in a... More

Audit Notes: Gore gorges, 60 Minutes in New Orleans, Wired

The former vice president twists arms and cashes in on Current TV

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 7, 2013 at 06:50 AM

Read Brian Stelter's excellent coverage in The New York Times of Al Gore's role in building and selling Current TV:... More

Audit Notes: more NOLA rumblings, Journatic, well-squawked

A new buyer emerges in New Orleans, Quick and Sorkin did good, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Jul 26, 2012 at 11:36 PM

—Can we agree at this point that Advance Publications’s attempt to sell its plans for dramatic newsroom cuts and... More

Audit Notes: New Orleans newspaper intrigue, NYT numbers, CNET

The Manships are in talks about selling The Advocate

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 29, 2013 at 06:50 AM

Baton Rouge's Manship family threw a wrench in the Newhouses' plans for the Times-Picayune when they launched a daily New... More

Audit Notes: newspaper war, inflation fears, executive pay

The Times-Picayune says it planned to go into Baton Rouge all along

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The Times-Picayune plans to move into Baton Rouge to hit back at the Advocate's move into New Orleans. But publisher... More

Audit Notes: paywall time machine, Times-Picayune, Elizabeth Warren

What digital subscriptions could have done for newspapers a decade ago

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 8, 2013 at 11:00 AM

Ken Doctor writes a fantastic piece for Nieman Lab on charging for news. He notes that leaky paywalls are working... More

Audit Notes: The Times-Picayune, Dimon’s hubris, the QuikTrip model

Shakeups in the Louisiana newspaper war

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 28, 2013 at 12:22 PM

Gambit's Kevin Allman reports that the New Orleans Times-Picayune's Baton Rouge bureau chief is out after six months. My long... More

Audit Notes: the anti-liquidation newspaper model, NYT on digital media doings

Ken Doctor spotlights Aaron Kushner’s investment at the OC Register

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 4, 2013 at 06:50 AM

Ken Doctor has a fantastic post up at the Nieman Lab on the Orange County Register, which has actually been... More

David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, on the Times-Picayune cuts

By David Simon   May 25, 2012 at 11:09 AM

It's grievous what is happening to regional newspapers, especially. But the whole industry will continue to collapse until everyone swallows... More

Digital First goes the Newhouse route in upstate New York

In Oneida, the paper moves to three days a week, following the Post-Standard

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 17, 2013 at 06:50 AM

The three-day-a-week newspaper model pioneered by Advance Publications in Michigan is now spreading to Digital First Media. The company will... More

Facing up to the high cost of free news

Is there a quality argument to support the digital ads-only model?

By Dean Starkman   Oct 8, 2012 at 11:27 AM

Pretty soon, proponents of free digital news will have to own up to the implications of their model. The... More

Heresy on the bayou (updated)

Times-Picayune drops its restaurant critic

By Brent Cunningham   Jun 13, 2012 at 10:43 AM

More than the news that it would no longer publish every day; more than the rumor that those left in... More